Gburek Peaks is a group of rocky elevations including Mount Straumsvola and Mount Jutulrora, forming the western end of the Sverdrup Mountains

Sverdrup Mountains

The Sverdrup Mountains are a group of mountains about long, standing just west of the Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Mount Krüger forms the highest point in the Sverdrup Mountains....

 in Queen Maud Land

Queen Maud Land

Queen Maud Land is a c. 2.7 million-square-kilometre region of Antarctica claimed as a dependent territory by Norway. The territory lies between 20° west and 45° east, between the British Antarctic Territory to the west and the Australian Antarctic Territory to the east. The latitudinal...

. Discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition

New Swabia

New Swabia is a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W in Queen Maud Land, which within Norway is administered as a Norwegian dependent territory under the Antarctic Treaty System...

 under Alfred Ritscher

Alfred Ritscher

Alfred Ritscher was a German polar explorer. A captain in the German Navy, he led the third German Antarctic Expedition in 1938-39, which mapped the New Swabia area of Queen Maud Land. Ritscher Peak and Ritscher Upland there are named for him.-External links:*...

, 1938–39, and named for Leo Gburek, geophysicist on the expedition. The name Gburek is here restricted to the westernmost peaks of those so named on maps of the German Antarctic Expedition, these being clearly recognizable on detailed maps by Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition

Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition

Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition the first Antarctica expedition involving an international team of scientists...

(NBSAE), 1949–52, and subsequent Norwegian expeditions.